tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10221823.post5137376424860206949..comments2024-01-05T02:49:13.756-06:00Comments on Out of the Binjo Ditch: A Victory for LibertyStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148864091827107809noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10221823.post-63044916856442979232008-06-23T23:18:00.000-06:002008-06-23T23:18:00.000-06:00I agree emphatically with you characterization of ...I agree emphatically with you characterization of the neo-conservatives as "activist judges." The uncomfortable reality is that we - well, most of us - have an opinion about how we think a court, any court, should rule. And when the court breaches our faith in the judiciary by deciding contrary to our own internal judicial compass, we assume it must be the fault of the judges. It couldn't possibly be law itself.<BR/><BR/>Some who have had a modicum of legal training - but certainly not all - can eventually reach a point (which I shall call legal self actualization - penned mercilessly from Maslow) where they can admit the court reach the wrong decision for the right reasons, or vice versa.<BR/><BR/>This dichotomy between reason and result is the beauty and the bane of our legal system. Sometimes justice does not prevail. And sometimes justice does prevail, even though the jurisprudence is flawed.<BR/><BR/>Here, in the vortex of American civil liberties, both reason and result triumph and faith in our judiciary is renewed, even if only for a moment.photoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09135500032935273305noreply@blogger.com